High School Musical 2
Short description
Summer break has arrived for the students of East High, and Troy Bolton is hoping to spend it with Gabriella Montez and the rest of the Wildcats. Sharpay Evans, using her family's connections, arranges for Troy to work at the Lava Springs Country Club, the exclusive resort owned by her parents. Once the other Wildcats are hired there as well, Sharpay sets out to pull Troy away from his friends and from Gabriella, offering him a chance at a future he had never considered. Torn between loyalty to the people close to him and the prospect of a scholarship and a different kind of life, Troy has to decide what matters most before the club's talent show arrives.
Kenny Ortega directed the film, his second High School Musical after the 2006 original and one of several musicals he made in that period, followed by High School Musical 3: Senior Year in 2008. Peter Barsocchini wrote the screenplay, and the cast is led by Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel, Corbin Bleu and Olesya Rulin. Made for television, it was produced by Salty Pictures, First Street Films and Disney Channel on a budget of about 7 million dollars, with 75 credited cast members.
On IMDb the film holds a rating of 5.2 from roughly 65,000 votes, while on TMDB it stands at 6.5 from close to 4,000 votes. A critics' score of 5.8 from 24 reviews places it above the IMDb audience figure but below the TMDB one, showing that viewers and reviewers responded to it quite differently.
What's left behind the scenes
- The actors had three weeks of dance rehearsals before filming began.
- Here, Zac Efron sings himself, unlike the first film (Kenny Ortega, 2006), where Andrew Seeley often sang for him.
- The group of people doing “the wave” to the sound of “What Time Is It” included the film’s cast, dancers, and director Kenny Ortega. The actors and dancers were already tired from countless rehearsals, so they sat on the floor and started giving each other massages. When Ortega saw this, he asked everyone to lean to the left (one at a time), and they did. Then he suggested they do the same thing while standing, which they did, and this scene was included in the film during the performance of the first song.
- Whenever an actor hits a golf ball towards the camera with a club, they are actually hitting ping pong balls. This is noticeable in the scene accompanied by “Bet On It,” as the ball Troy hits has no dimples. During the filming of this scene, Zac Efron hit members of the crew and other people several times, not to mention the equipment. If those had been real golf balls, people could have been injured and the filming equipment could have been broken.
- Before filming this movie, Monica Coleman couldn't swim and was afraid of water. The scene where her character jumps into the pool had to be rewritten so that Corbin Bleu's character jumped with her.
- Each song used in the film was rewritten at least 5 times.
- Filming the scene to the song “Bet On It” took six days.
- To give the schoolyard a more “spring-like” appearance, the grass had to be painted bright green.
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